Demarcate: meaning, example and synonyms

Demarcatev. To mark or set the limits or boundaries of something.

Example

Using colored stakes, the biologists demarcated each study plot so that volunteers would not trample the seedlings between them.

Part of speech: verb
Synonyms: delimit, mark, bound, define
Antonyms: blur, merge, combine, confuse
Memory tip: Demarcate contains "mark": mark where the line is.

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Check yourself: Demarcate in context

Pick the word that best completes each text, as on the SAT's words-in-context questions.

Question 1

Before the excavation began, the archaeologists used string and stakes to ______ the exact area where digging would be allowed.

Question 2

Low stone walls ______ the fields of neighboring families, a pattern of boundaries that has barely changed in three centuries.

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